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populous

Word definitions for populous in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Populous \Pop"u*lous\, a. [L. populosus, fr. populus people: cf. F. populeux.] Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Populous is a series of video games developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts . The first game in the series – Populous was released in 1989. At the time, it was hailed as revolutionary, and it coined the term " god game ".

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from post-classical Latin populosus "full of people, populous," from populus "people" (see people (n.)). Related: Populousness .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ After the wet dark days, the country seems more populous . ▪ The candidates have devoted far more time here than in much more populous states. ▪ The hill country had once been far more populous . most ▪ ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a large population. 2 (context of a language English) Spoken by a large number of people. 3 densely populate. 4 Crowded with people.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. densely populated [syn: thickly settled ]

Usage examples of populous.

Adammoving awkwardly at first on his new crutches, but more surely after he borrowed tips on technique from Henry Populous, an amputee of fifty years standingmade his way half a dozen blocks before he came to a small park.

For a while, little was produced, although they did find some major antiviral agents and sufficient DNA-based cures for genetic defects and diseases and for the enhancement of plants and animals to feed an ever more populous world that in fact paid their budget and more.

This plan being rejected, Lord John Russell proposed another, which would have extended the right of electing members to populous towns then unrepresented in parliament, and disfranchise every borough convicted hereafter of corruption.

The force of example was now added to the existing motives for change, and the notion of transferring the privileges of a corrupt borough to an unrepresented place, or giving the elective franchise to a populous town, was discarded.

Or I could let you look down into Potrero Canyon, an eroded earthquake crack which cuts through populous Pacific Palisades, another postal address in Los Angeles.

So strong and populous was the city that the Trinobantes, during the years that had elapsed since the Romans took possession of it, remained passive under the yoke of their oppressors, and watched, without attempting to take part in them, the rising of the Iceni and Brigantes, the long and desperate war of the Silures and Ordovices under Caractacus, and the reduction of the Belgae and Dumnonii from Hampshire to Cornwall by Vespasian.

I may as well confess that I would not now, if I could help it, allow a tramp, as dilapidated in raiment, as unwashed, unshorn, uncombed, and populous with insects as we were, to come within several rods of me.

This is the very essence of the promise of the attraction of fusion for a densely populous and waste-impacted nation such as mine, we are taught fusion to be self-sufficient and wasteless perpetuation.

One might even - knowing the importance that the Mercatoria attaches to reconnecting all the many, many systems which have been without Arteria access all these millennia - wonder why the expedition from Zenerre to Ulubis with a new portal was dispatched with such alacrity, given the arguably still greater claims that more populous, more classically strategically important and more at-the-time obviously threatened systems might have had upon the resources and expertise of our esteemed colleagues in the Engineering faculty.

Major Henri de Beaujolais and Miss Mary Vanbrugh had departed and a gentle sadness was settling upon the soul of the Sheikh el Habibka el Wazir who was about to be left alone, alone in a populous place, while the Emir departed on his honeymoon.

Onward--onward--through the screaming, cackling, and blackly populous gulfs--and then from some dim blessed distance there came an image and a thought to Randolph Carter the doomed.

Ransoinville was in a remote corner of the Chautauqua Valley, far from the more populous Mt.

Barbarians, in arms, as well as in discipline, removed the only pretence which excuses the submission of a populous country to the inferior numbers of a veteran army.

Then he brought out all that he vaguely knew of Malthusianism, the geometrical increase of births, and the arithmetical increase of food-substances, the earth becoming so populous as to be reduced to a state of famine within two centuries.

The Nervii had gone down badly several years before, but it was a very large and populous tribe which could still field a terrifying number of warriors.